Shetland’s Nature Prescriptions – many of which can be administered elsewhere across Scotland

● Get outside, whatever the weather, and feel the exhilaration of the wind and rain on your face

● Look for mountain hares on the path to Lunga Water

● Draw a snowdrop

● Bag a Marilyn – like a Munro, but smaller, measuring 150m or over

● Play like an eight-year-old – build a den or re-enact childhood games

● Borrow a dog and take it for a walk

● Make a nestbox for birds with animal hair as bedding material

● Touch the sea

● Take the coastal path to the Broch of Burraland and watch for ‘neesiks’, or pospoises, at Mousa Sound

● Make a bug hotel

● Find a tree bud and feel it

● Bury your face in the grass

● Make a daisy chain

● Visit the UK’S most northerly point Out Stack, off Hermaness, and check out all the seabirds en route

● Turn over a rock and see what’s lurking underneath

● Eat a wood sorrel leaf

● Sit cross-legged on the ground, close your eyes and listen to the birds

● Don’t mow the lawn – and watch all the minibeasts move in

● Explore somewhere you’ve never been before to clarify your thoughts

● Make a meal of dandelion flowers

● Go wild camping

● Follow a bumblebee

● Talk to a bird by listening and imitating its calls

● Charm a worm out of the ground

● Watch the spectacular waves during equinox gales

● Take part in a beach clean

● Look for autumn migrant birds

● Appreciate a cloud

● Write a worry onto a stone and throw it in the sea

● Talk to a pony

● Explore mighty sand dunes

● Go otter watching – walk into the wind and follow the poo to find them

● Feed the birds

● Find the hairiest lichen within a mile of your home